Revolving sweeping attachment for spinning-mules



(No Model.)

G. ASHWORTH.

REVOLVING SWEEPING ATTACHMENT FOR SPINNING MULES.

[NVENTOR No. 329,117. Patented 0m. 27, 1885.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS,

UNITED STATES ATENT Tries.

REVOLVENG SWEEPING ATTACHMENT FOR SPINNING-MULES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,117, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed May 8, 1884. Serial No. 130,754. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES AsHwoRrH, of Grosvenor Dale, county of Windham, Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Revolving Sweeping Attachment for Spinning- Mules, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to spinning-mules; and it consists of a sweeping attachment therefor, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a transverse sectional elevation of a part ofa common spinning-mule carriage having my new sweeping attachment applied thereto; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the revolving sweeping attachment removed from the spinning-mule carriage, showing in crosssection the rails on which the mule-carriage travels.

A represents the sweepingroller. This by preference is made of wood and covered with the jacket a, of felt or other soft fibrous material to which cotton will adhere, and the roller is made of a length about equal to the width of space between the rails R B, on which the spinningmule carriage B reciprocates.

The roller A may be attached to the car riage of the spinning-mule B, so as to run upon the floor C beneath the mule, by the slotted hooked and bent arms D D, the slotted cleats E E, secured to the under side of the mule-carriage B, the clamp-plates F F, and the bolts G G, which pass through the vertical slots (1 d of the arms D D, and the horizontal slots 0 e of the cleats E E, and screw into the clamp plates 1* F, as will be understood from the drawings, so that by loosening the bolts G G the arms D D may be adjusted either vertically or forward and backward, as may be found necessary for holding the roller Ain the proper position.

The lower ends of the arms D D are hooked, as shown at ff, to form opening hearings to receive the gudgeons c c of sweeping-roller A.

Instead of the hooksff, the arms D D might be slotted to receive the gudgeons c, which, like the hooks ff, would permit the sweeping roller to be easily removed and replaced, and permit it also to move vertically, so that it will accommodate itself to the accumulation of cotton upon it and readily pass over any small obstacles that may drop by accident upon the part of the floor over which the roller is forced by the to-and-fro movement of the mule-carriage.

In applying my revolving sweeping attachment to a spinning-mule the arms D D will be so adjusted as to cause the roller A to run full length upon the floor, so that from con tact with the floor as the mule-carriage is reciprooated the roller will be rolled backward and forward over the floor, which will cause the felt jacket a to gather up the sweepings at all points of the circumference of the roller. In this manner the roller A. not only serves to gather up and retain all of the sweepings, but also to form the sweepings into a mat or web around the roller A, from which, by removing the roller from its bearings, the sweepings may be cut, furnishing a compact hat or web the length of the roller A and as wide as the circumference of the roller.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The slotted cleats E, adapted to be secured to the under side of a mule-carriage, in combination with the clampplates F, bolts G, slotted arms D, provided with open bearings, and sweepingroller A, journaled in said open bearings, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. I

CHARLES ASHWORTH.

WVitnesses:

B. S. THOMPSON, E. E. BOUOHER. 

